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Problems in the Interpretation of Statutes Designed to Prevent Lapses in Testamentary Dispositions
, 1948 Problems in the Interpretation of Statutes Designed to Prevent Lapses in Testamentary ...
Lohn, Sherman V.
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LIFE INSURANCE IN A TESTAMENTARY CLAUSE
This article addresses the issue arising from the modification of life insurance beneficiaries by final will dispositions and the validity of a testamentary clause that determines, by the will of the testator, that the entire capital to be received upon ...
Costa, Deborah Regina Lambach Ferreira +1 more
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At the Interface Between Paradigms: English Mental Capacity Law and the CRPD. [PDF]
Front Psychiatry, 2020 Bartlett P.
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Can a lizard ride on a housefly?: Navigating uncertainty and moral life in an Accra Zongo, Ghana
Ethos, Volume 54, Issue 2, June 2026.Abstract How can uncertainty become a resource for ethical life rather than a threat to it? Focusing on a Zongo community in Accra, Ghana—also known as a “traveler's camp” or “stranger's quarters”—this article examines how people use a creative form of communication called the practice of folding to sustain relationships shaped by conditions of ...
Emily A. Williamson
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‘Unbecoming’ a Professional: The Role of Memory during Field Transitions in Japan and the USA
Journal of Management Studies, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 1837-1873, June 2026.Abstract Existing scholarship documents how, in becoming a professional, such as a partner in a professional services firm (PSF), one's habitus comes into alignment with field expectations. Less understood, however, is what happens to habitus and, relatedly, to professionals' accumulated cultural, social, and economic capitals, as individuals ‘unbecome’
Ricardo Azambuja +4 more
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Impression material accuracy for palatal orthodontic miniscrews. [PDF]
J Orofac Orthop, 2020 Schenz N +3 more
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Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 54, Issue 2, Page 180-208, June 2026.ABSTRACT The concept of humility has a long history of paradoxicality. From denoting a lowly social status—to becoming one of the highest Christian virtues—to falling under the critique of the liberators of the Enlightenment—to experiencing an upsurge of philosophical and psychological interest in recent years, the value of acknowledging one's least ...
Benjamin Birkenstock
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What Can the State of Nature Justify?
Philosophy &Public Affairs, Volume 54, Issue 2, Page 116-128, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT Social contract theory is one of the most popular approaches to political justification. While the state of nature account in social contract theory is generally invoked to justify the state's authority, I argue in this paper that no extant account succeeds in doing so.
Arthur (Hongyang) Yang
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Teaching New Religious Movements Historically: Distance, Empathy, and Cults in the Classroom
Teaching Theology &Religion, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 46-54, June 2026.ABSTRACT Resistance to understanding the beliefs of modern New Religious Movements (NRMs) is well‐known to those who teach in the area. This paper builds on Eugene Gallagher's repurposing of “methodological belief” for college classes on NRMs by suggesting that scholars and teachers in the field of religious studies engage methods and content drawn ...
Douglas FitzHenry Jones
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Das solonische Gesetz über Erbschaft : Vorschrift über Testament oder Adoption?
, 2014 Solon enacted a law conferring on the Athenians the possibility of disposing of one’s patrimony (διατίθεσθαι τὰ ἑαυτοῦ) through adoption. The paper examines the contents of the law and advances a new reconstruction of its text.
L. Gagliardi
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